Laing, Alexander Gordon (1794-1826)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0117 MS 374 |
Held at | : Royal Society Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ › |
Full title | : Laing, Alexander Gordon (1794-1826) |
Date(s) | : 19th century |
Level of description | : Sub-fonds |
Extent | : 2 boxes and 2 notebooks |
Name of creator(s) | : Laing | Alexander Gordon | 1794-1826 | traveller |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1794; educated, Edinburgh University; commissioned in the Prince of Wales's Edinburgh volunteers, 1810; went to Barbados, 1811; appointed ensign in the York light infantry, a corps which served in the West Indies, 1813; promoted lieutenant, 1815; exchanged into the 2nd West India regiment in Jamaica; posted to Sierra Leone, 1820; captain to the Royal African Colonial Corps, 1822; two successive missions to Forecariah in the coastal country (later Guinea) north of Sierra Leone; transferred to the Gold Coast, 1823; official mission to seek the mouth of the Niger, 1824; died on the mission in 1826.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters and papers of Alexander Gordon Laing chiefly relating to his last and fatal expedition to Timbuktoo.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Finding aids:
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
His papers were sent, after his death, to Sir Edward Sabine, and came to the Society some time after Sir Edward's death.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions:
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2009.
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